Brian Bull
Freelance reporterBrian Bull is a contributing freelance reporter with the KLCC News department, who first began working with the station in 2016. In that time, Bull worked as a general assignment reporter, documentary and podcast producer, and interim news director. He's now senior reporter with the Native American media organization Buffalo's Fire, and recently worked as a journalism professor at the University of Oregon teaching audio storytelling, public affairs reporting, and story development.
In his nearly 30 years working as a public media journalist, Bull has worked at NPR, Twin Cities Public Television, South Dakota Public Broadcasting, Wisconsin Public Radio, and ideastream in Cleveland. His work has been heard on NPR Newscasts and programs, and APM's Marketplace. He's also a substitute host for National Native News, and has had articles published in The Eugene-Register Guard, The Oregonian, Indian Country Today, and Underscore Native News. Several photos of CAHOOTS workers he took were featured in People Magazine in July 2021.
Bull has won dozens of accolades and awards in his career, including four national Edward R. Murrow Awards (22 regional), the Ohio Associated Press' Best Reporter Award, Best Radio Reporter from the Native American Journalists Association, and the PRNDI/NEFE Award for Excellence in Consumer Finance Reporting.
An enrolled member of the Nez Perce Tribe, Bull has worked with NPR's Next Generation Project geared towards diversifying the ranks of tomorrow's journalists. He's been a guest faculty instructor at the Poynter Institute on covering underrepresented communities, and also served as chair for Vision Maker Media, which supports authentic programs and documentaries produced by Native Americans.
Bull has a Master's Degree in American Journalism Online from New York University, and a B.A. from Macalester College where he studied Psychology, English, and Dramatic Arts.
He's glad to be home in the Pacific Northwest, close to his family, tribe, and the Oregon Coast. If only someone had warned him about the grass seed pollen every spring! Bull is married and has three children, and five cats. He enjoys photography, hiking, cooking, the visual and performing arts, and the occasional Godzilla movie.
Read how Brian's desire to spur reflection led him to a career in public media.
Check out Bull's latest NextGen project with regional mentees in Oregon, hosted by Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Brian is the director and lead interviewer for the Public Radio Oral History Project, which aims to build a repository of interviews with many of the industry's founders and innovators.
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Disputes over managing the Klamath River system have existed between farmers and conservationists for years. But an Oregon State University researcher says there’s more common ground to be had for the groups. -
An annual celebration of Asian culture marked its fifth year Friday night at the Farmers Market Pavilion in Eugene. Hundreds of people filled the space, to see dance, martial arts, and Taiko drumming. -
Springfield City Councilors weigh pros and cons of possible land annexation for PeaceHealth hospitalA proposed behavioral health facility was on Monday night’s agenda for the Springfield City Council. For just over two hours, councilors heard testimony on plans to annex 18 acres in the North Gateway area. -
Oregon researchers say forest thinning practices don’t have to clash with efforts to protect the northern spotted owl. -
Several activists held a press conference Friday in Eugene’s Scobert Park, following last weekend’s release of bodycam footage that showed a Eugene Police officer making racist remarks, and joking about domestic violence and gassed protesters. -
A Utah police officer is being investigated for a racist, profane and derogatory phone conversation captured on a Eugene officer’s bodycam.
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More than 400 communities in the Pacific Northwest are at higher risk of wildfires than first thought, according to an Oregon State University researcher. A joint study between OSU and The Nature Conservancy shows how these findings can help prevention and recovery efforts for vulnerable communities. -
The now ex-officer was heard using racist and offensive language in a bodycam video that was shared this weekend. -
A Eugene Police Officer has resigned and the city’s independent police auditor has vowed an investigation, after EPD bodycam footage emerged online Saturday that contained profane and racist language. -
Officials with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife aren’t excited about the appearance of common carp in the Cooper Creek Reservoir near Sutherlin.
